CityLab unveils redesign of Brooklyn bus system
CityLab, an organization dedicated to the people who are creating the cities of the future, recently detailed the ills of Brooklyn’s bus system and designed an ideal bus system of its own.
Bus ridership in the city as a whole has declined by 20 percent during the past decade, according to CityLab. Reasons the academics give include growing congestion, demographic changes and system-wide MTA service cuts that began in 2010.
CityLab’s imaginary bus route mainly consists of straight north-south and east-west routes rather than “zig-zagging trajectories.” The organization would like all routes to run buses every 6 minutes from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.